Following publication of an advertisement of a "Barbacue & Ice" at Beauchamp's Springs, at which congressional candidates were to ...speak, the editor of the Houston Morning Star, of July 4, 1839, said: "(It will) not be an unfavorable opportunity for these gentlemen to express their true politics ... provided ... the liquors do not prove too powerful."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Go, and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,...Tell me, where all past years are,Or who cleft the devil's foot,Teach me to her mermaids singing,Or to keep off envy's stinging,And findWhat windServes to advance an honest mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »